Splicing device.



A. F. ALTHEIDE.

SPLIUING- DEVICE.

APPT-IOATION IILED FEB.7, 1910.

961,201 I Patented June 14,1910.

AUGUST F. ALTHEIDE, 0F MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS.

SPLICING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1910.

Application filed February 7, 1910. Serial No. 542,402.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST F. ALTHEIDE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Mount Carmel, in the county of Wabash and State of Illinois,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Splicing Devices,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to splicing tools, and more particularly to ropeor cable splicing tools, and has for its object to provide a splicingdevice designed to take the place of the marline spike of the usualform, and which will be so arranged and constructed that it will not cutthe rope and will bring all of the small strands through the mainportion of the cable at one time.

Another object is to provide a tool which will not spread the strands ofthe rope to a greater extent than necessary and thus destroy theformation and the tightness thereof.

In making a splice with a marline spike or any one of the splicingdevices of the usual form, it is necessary, when terminating the spliceand tucking in the extremities of the strands to separate the mainstrands of the cable or rope by forcing the splicing tool thereinto, andthen to remove the splicing tool and insert the extremity of the strandwith the fingers, afterward poking and tucking the end of the strandinto the opening with the tool. It will be readily seen that, when thesplicing tool is removed from between the strands of the cable, thelatter will tend to spring together again, and the insertion of the endof the strand thus made much more difficult.

It is a special object of my invention to overcome this diliiculty, aswill be understood from the following description.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in whichlike numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views,Figure l is a perspective view showing the splicing tool, Fig. 2 is aview showing the present splicing tool in use, Fig. 3 is an edge view,Fig. l is a transverse sec tion through the eye on line 4t of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings, the present splicing tool comprises ahandle 5, from the center of which there extends laterally a stem 6, thehandle thus extending trans versely of the stem and projecting at opposite sides of the stem. A flattened tongue 7 is carried by the oppositeend of the stem from the handle, and this tongue is curvedlongitudinally, as shown, and for convenience the concave face of thistongue will I be termed the upper face and the convex face will betermed the lower face.

The tip of the tongue is reduced transversely to a point indicated at 9,and lies in a plane above the plane of the handlef The tongue has alongitudinally extending eye 10 therein and there result spaced sideportions 11 and 12.

The stem 6 is of considerably greater width transversely of the handlethan it is longitudinally of the handle, which is the exact reverse ofthe tongue, as shown in the drawings, and it will thus be seen that thestem is of a convenient shape to fit be tween the fingers of the user,the hand being clasped upon the handle. A wedge 13 is formed at theunion of the stem and the tongue, the minor portion of this wedgejoining the tongue, while its major portion joins the stem.

In use, the handle is grasped as shown in the drawings, and the point 9is engaged between the strands of a cable to be spliced. The tongue isthen forced between the strands, and the extremity of one of the loosestrands to be admitted through the main portion of the cable is insertedthrough the eye 10. The device may then be drawn back from between thestrands, and the loose strand will of course be drawn with it.

In some instances it is desirable to force the strands of the mainportion of a cable apart to a considerable extent, and when this isnecessary, the device is forced between the strands until the wedgeportion 13 enters between them, when further forcing of the device willeffectually separate the strands.

By reason of the fact that the spaced portions 11 and 12 are in parallelrelation throughout their entire length, as shown, a loose strand may beinserted through the eye 10 between the rearward end of the eye and thecable in which the point 9 has been inserted, and the device then pushedthrough between the strands to carry the loose strand into the desiredposition. It

will thus be seen that the device may either be used to force the loosestrands through the cable, or to draw them back through the cable, asmay be desired.

What is claimed is:

1. A splicing tool comprising a flattened tongue having its forward endreduced transversely to form a point, and having a eye formed thereinand having its forward longitudinally extending eye formed therein, endsharpened, a stem carried by the rearsaid eye being of uniform Widththroughout Ward end of the tongue, and a transversely its entire length,a stem carried by the rearextending handle carried by the stem and 15Ward end of the tongue and fiattenedjg V projecting oppositelytherebeyond. occupy a plane at right angles to the tongue In testimonywhereof I afiix my signature, to form a Wedge portion at the union ofthe in presence of two Witnesses. tongue and stem, and a transverselyextend- AUGUST F. ALTHEIDE. ing handle carried by the stem. Witnesses:

2. A splicingtool comprising a flattened LoUIs HUNT, tongue having alongitudinally extending l W. J. TOWNSEND.

